Robin Hanson is an assistant professor of economics.  He joined George Mason's economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc U.C Berkeley. His major fields of interest are health policy, regulation, and formal political theory.

Dr. Hanson has a personal web page. The page includes his work in academic economics, class materials, and a sampling of his broader interests in economics, philosophy, political theory, alternative institutions, and the economics of science fiction.

Dr. Hanson earned his PhD in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech University.